Medicaid expansion officially launched on Dec. 1, expanding government-funded coverage to North Carolinians earning up to $20,000 annually and families of four who earn up to $41,000 annually. As people are recruited into the state’s Medicaid expansion program over the next month, it is important to remember that the healthcare system will continue to be...
Key members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation have it right: unless we do something meaningful about the federal government’s chronic budget deficits, America’s future is in peril. “Reckless spending has led our country into a dire economic situation threatened by inflation and mountains of debt,” says Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC9, chairman of the National Republican Congressional...
North Carolina Democrats have already lost the first skirmish in the next round of redistricting wars, as a federal judge rejected an urgent call to block new state Senate districts from going into place before the start of candidate filing in early December. US District Judge James Dever labeled the proposed timeline “meritless,” in a scathing...
The NCRLA compiled hiring data from Lightcast and Indeed and found that since the beginning of October, approximately 2,134 restaurant jobs have opened up in the Triangle area alone. This development may come as a surprise to some due to the state’s historically low unemployment rate of 3.4%.